The recent Myanmar disaster proves that visualizing data has found a new important place in mapping capabilities, links to data and pictures from Frank at Google Earth blog.

All Points Blog points to CNN as an example of why static data just doesn’t cut it, especially when it comes to demographic information and election coverage.

Sue at Very Spatial shows us IBM’s latest project called Many Eyes. Many Eyes is a set of visualization tools and web services that allow users to create and share visualization projects, with the goal of creating a collaborative social networking space for exploring and analyzing visualizations.

James notes that users love to play with maps of their data, and just find it easier to visualize maps than charts.

The GIS data interchange file is discussed by James Fee at Spatially Adjusted, and he asks users how people share data.

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